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(Last Modified On 5/31/2013)
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(Last Modified On 5/31/2013)
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Genus
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Cuscuta L.
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Sp. P1. 124. 1753
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TYPE: C. europaea L.
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Description
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Vines without chlorophyll; the stems twining, filiform, yellow or orange or rarely greenish, attached to host plants by haustoria; roots withering and absent from mature plants. Leaves reduced to minute scales. Inflorescences cymose, composed of small whitish flowers; calyx gamosepalous, 5-lobed, the sepals rarely almost free; corolla urceolate or campanulate, the 5 lobes various, usually with basal scale-like appendages inside opposite the stamens, forming a corona; the pollen 3-colpate; ovary 2-locular, locules biovulate, styles 2, distinct or rarely united, terminal, the stigmas capitate to linear. Fruit capsular or circumscissle near the base; the seeds (1-3)-4, smooth or roughened.
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Habit
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Vines
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Distribution
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A genus of 140-150 species of worldwide distribution.
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The genus is not well represented in Panama, only one species being found.
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Reference
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Yuncker, J. G. Revision of the North American and West Indian species of Cuscuta. Univ. Illinois Biol. Monog. 6: 1-142. 1921. Yuncker, J.G. The genus Cuscuta. Mem. Torrey Bot. Club 18: 113-331. 1932. Cuscuta. N. Amer. Fl., ser. 2. 4: 1-51. 1965.
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